Senior Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 78% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Associate roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 133 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Senior Associate according to 133 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 17%
Background check: 13%
Skills test: 12%
Drug test: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cognizant (Bengaluru) in Sep 2022
Interview
The first round was behavioral.
There was a questionnaire which had to be filled, containing different situational questions like how would you prioritize tasks assigned to team, how will you manage bandwidth of team basis skillet of each individual, etc.
The next round was a one-on-one with one of the managers. There questions related to the job profile. So for me most of the questions were related to software development life cycle, Agile, scrum, etc. It was a good interaction, with a shirt discussion at the end regarding which questions could have been answered better.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain Waterfall vs Agile software development and how team bandwidth can be optimized in Agile as compared to Waterfall.
It was 2 round simple process, 1st Technical and 2nd is also technical/ manageral. Overall exp was good. Interviewer touched all the concepts from Basics to advanced on selenium and Playwright.
First there will be a screening round ,most probably a telephonic or video call followed by a Managerial round
Lastly a client round where you will be asked about your day to day contribution in project
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cognizant (Winston-Salem, NC)
Interview
Screening from a cognizant employee via a phone/teams call, sometime involving a scenario based coding question or a tell me a time when kind of questions, then a client round interview.